Rod Wave’s ‘Last Lap’ Leads Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Chart

Rod Wave‘s Last Lap beats the competition on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with a No. 1 entrance on the list dated Oct. 26. The album, released through Alamo Records, starts with 127,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. for the tracking week of Oct. 11 – 17, according to Luminate, kicking off as the week’s most-streamed album of any genre.

Of Last Lap’s first-week sum, streaming activity contributes 125,000 units, equaling 173.4 million official on-demand streams of the album’s songs. Thanks to that swell, Last Lap begins at No. 1 on the Top Streaming Albums chart. Traditional album sales deliver 2,000 units with a negligible amount of activity from track-equivalent album units. (One unit equals the following levels of consumption: one album sale, 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams for a song on the album.)

With Last Lap, Rod Wave picks up his fourth No. 1 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. His first two leaders – SoulFly (2021) and Beautiful Mind (2022) – each ruled for two weeks, while last year’s Nostalgia clocked three weeks in the top slot. In addition to his four champs, Rod Wave has sent three more titles onto the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart – Ghetto Gospel, which peaked at No. 7 in 2020, Pray 4 Love (No. 2, 2020) and the EP Jupiter’s Diary: 7 Day Theory (No. 5, 2022).

Elsewhere, Last Lap opens at No. 1 on the Top Rap Albums chart and at No. 2 on the all-genre Billboard 200.

Due to the Last Lap streaming avalanche, 21 of the album’s songs spill onto the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. “25” leads the pack at No. 4 and, with 17.5 million official U.S. streams, is the top-streamed Last Lap track for the week. Here’s a full recap of the album’s placements on this week’s ranking:

No. 4, “25”
No. 8, “Last Lap”
No. 10, “Federal Nightmares”
No. 11, “Angel With an Attitude”
No. 13, “Fall Fast in Love”
No. 14, “F**k Fame,” featuring Lil Yachty & Lil Baby
No. 15, “Passport Junkie”
No. 17, “Never Mind”
No. 18, “Turtle Race”
No. 20, “Apply Pressure”
No. 25, “The Best”
No. 28, “Even Love”
No. 30, “Lost in Love,” with Be Charlotte
No. 35, “Waited 2 Late”
No. 36, “Mike”
No. 37, “D.A.R.E.”
No. 38, “Scared Love”
No. 41, “Karma”
No. 43, “The Mess They Made”
No. 44, “IRan”
No. 47, “Spaceship”

The 21 simultaneous entries makes Rod Wave only the sixth artist to ever chart as many tracks on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs in a single week, dating to the chart’s launch in 1958. (The feat is a recent trend, as huge streaming returns have allowed for a sharp rise in the number of songs that make the chart in a week, usually with an album’s debut.) The rapper joins Drake, who has eight different weeks of 21 or more songs, Lil Baby (three times), Future, Lil Wayne and Metro Boomin (one each).